The impact of multimorbidity level and functional limitations on the accuracy of using self-reported survey data compared to administrative data to measure general practitioner and specialist visits in community-living adults

• Main Authors: Lauren E. Griffith (Author), Andrea Gruneir (Author), Kathryn A. Fisher (Author), Rumaisa Aljied (Author), Richard Perez (Author), Francis Nguyen (Author), Christopher Patterson (Author), Maureen Markle-Reid (Author), Jenny Ploeg (Author), Ross Upshur (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Researchers often use survey data to study the effect of health and social variables on physician use, but how self-reported physician use compares to administrative data, the gold standard, in particular within the context of multimorbidity and functional limitations remains unc...